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Let me bump and get back on topic.

>>1585629
>Why was Duke 3D so great?

To me one of the reasons is usermaps and the level editor. There has been TONS of high quality usermaps even since 1996. For information, quite a lot of mappers who did maps for duke3D as a hobby turned pro. There was Robert Travis, who then got hired Sunstorm Interactive and worked on official add-ons for Duke3D, but also other games. Same for Mike Beaulieu. Wieder, who then got hired by 3DRealms and worked on DNF. Matt Wood, who got hired by 3DRealms as well (Prey, Max Payne, DNF) and who then moved to Valve (TF2, L4D, HL2, etc). There is also Enric Alvarez, who turned pro (I think it's the same Enric Alvarez who worked on Castlevania Lord of Shadow among other things); more recently there is also DavoX who joined a company that makes games for mobile phones or iOS I think; and I think there are more that I can't recall on top of my head.

I used to make crappy maps for Duke3D as a kid with my brother, and play usermaps that I got from a PC Video Game Magazine special issue that came every 3 months (which was more about demos and sharewares but also had usermaps for games).
A few years after I got internet, I decided to check other maps for duke3D. That was in 2004 and the first usermaps I downloaded, completely by chance, were maps created by a still active mapper which were recreations of my hometown or based on it (the town i still lived in at the time). I think you understand how incredible that is, playing recreations of your hometown in one of your favourite game completely by chance! After that I even became a postman in some of the places remade in those maps...
That immedialy kicked back my love for the game and I haven't stopped since.

So, I recommend those maps, and any map made by the same author (MRCK), pic related
http://msdn.duke4.net/hot.php
(ctrl+f : mrck ; or click "on author" on top of the list to get the list sorted by author)